Tennessee Employee Leasing Case Law
Please find, below, selected case laws decided by Supreme Court of Tennessee or Court of Appeals of Tennessee where the terms employee leasing has been mentioned. You are not to rely on these cases as legal advice nor should you rely on them for accuracy. Please see Terms of Service.
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Salazar v. Concrete Form Erectors - 12/15/2003
The employee or claimant, Mr. Salazar, initiated this civil action to recover workers' compensation benefits for a work related injury. The employer, Concrete Form Erectors, and its insurer, denied liability. After a trial on the...
Henson v. Factory & Steel Transportation - 12/15/2003
The employee or claimant, Mary Louise Henson, initiated this civil action to recover workers' compensation benefits against her employer, Factory & Steel Transportation, and its insurer, Reliance Insurance Company, alleging that...
Helton v. Town of Rogersville - 12/10/2003
The employer, Town of Rogersville, has appealed from the ruling of the Circuit Court awarding the employee, Claude E. Helton, Jr., 40 percent permanent partial disability to the left leg.
Facts
Employee Helton was...
Perrin v. Gaylord Entertainment Co. - 12/5/2003
BACKGROUND
The employee, William Perrin, age 41 at the time of the trial, began working in 1986 as a stagehand for The Nashville Network ("TNN"), which was owned by Gaylord Entertainment Company ("Gaylord"). Perrin's duties...
Battle v. Methodist Medical Center - 12/3/2003
In this case, the trial court awarded the plaintiff, Sharon A. Battle, a total of 40 percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole as a result of sustaining two separate work-related injuries. Plaintiff is dissatisfied...
Lowry v. Hardeman County Board of Education - 12/2/2003
The employee or claimant, Ms. Lowry, initiated this civil action to recover workers' compensation benefits for a work related injury. The employer denied liability and asserted the claim was barred by failure of the claimant to give...
Terrell v. Sterling Plumbing Group Kinkead Division - 11/21/2003
FACTS
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Panel in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting to the Supreme Court of findings of fact and conclusions of law.
The...
Moore v. Shoney's - 11/20/2003
The employee or claimant, Mr. Moore, initiated this civil action to recover workers' compensation benefits for a work related injury. The employer, Shoney's, Inc., denied liability. After a trial on the merits, the trial court...
Newman v. City of Knoxville - 11/18/2003
Ordinarily, the standard of review in a workers' compensation case is de novo upon the record of the trial court, accompanied by a presumption of correctness of findings of fact, unless the preponderance of the evidence is otherwise....
Neeley v. Southern Tank Leasing Company - 11/17/2003
Mr Larry Neeley was 49 years old at the time of trial and had an 11th grade education. He earned his G.E.D. while in the Army. He is a Vietnam veteran and a retired Army National Guardsman. He had worked for Southern Tank Leasing (or...
Nolan v. Covenant Health - 11/17/2003
Review of the findings of fact made by the trial court is de novo upon the record of the trial court, accompanied by a presumption of the correctness of the findings, unless the preponderance of the evidence is otherwise. Tenn. Code...
Santiago v. Hartford - 11/17/2003
The employee or claimant, Mr. Santiago, initiated separate civil actions, against a past and present employer, to recover workers' compensation benefits for work related carpal tunnel syndrome, The former employer, Powermatic, and...
Taylor v. Ebasco Constructors - 11/12/2003
The employer, Ebasco Constructors, Inc., has appealed from the trial court's finding the employee, Beverly A. Taylor, was permanently and totally disabled as a result of her exposure to aluminum during the course of her employment. ...
Burnett v. Wal-Mart Stores - 11/10/2003
FACTUAL BACKGROUND
At the time of trial, employee was 40 years of age. She has seventh grade education, and a history of factory work. While working for Wal-Mart in May 1998 she fell and injured her back, right leg and right...
Silva v. Martin Lumber Company - 11/5/2003
On February 3, 2000, Mr. Jose Silva began working for Martin Lumber Company. In applying for employment, he presented a Social Security card and a Resident Alien Card containing his photograph. He also signed an Employment...
Lacey v. Lacey - 10/31/2003
Plaintiff/Appellant Frank Hooper Lacey ("Father") and Defendant/Appellee Karla Suzanne Lacey ("Mother") were divorced by a final decree entered on May 7, 2002. Two children were born of the marriage, Sarah Adeline Lacey (born May 28,...
Hicks v. Hicks - 9/29/2003
Holly M. Kirby, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which W. Frank Crawford, P.J., W.S., and David R. Farmer, J., joined.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Brenda Hicks ("Wife") and John E. Hicks ("Husband") were married on July...
Trinity Industries - 9/22/2003
In April 1994, Trinity Industries, Inc. ("Trinity," "Plaintiff," or "Appellee") and McKinnon Bridge Company, Inc. ("McKinnon," "Defendant," or "Appellant") entered into a written Agreement (the "Agreement") wherein Trinity agreed to...
Doe v. Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville - 9/22/2003
Edward McKeown became a Catholic priest in 1970. In 1986, a parent reported to Bishop Niedergeses of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville that Mr. McKeown had molested her son when he was a minor attending a Diocesan school in...
Sanson v. Lookout Knitwear - 9/15/2003
In this case the employer, Lookout Knitwear LLC, and its insurance carrier, The Hartford Insurance Group, have appealed from the trial court's action in awarding the employee, Stephanie Sansom, benefits for injuries to her left arm...
State v. McCarver - 9/9/2003
FACTS
At approximately 10:20 a.m. on Wednesday, August 14, 1996, the defendant, William E. McCarver, shot and killed his estranged wife's boyfriend, Ricky Jason Harvey, as the victim was sitting in his pickup truck at the...
Federico v. Aladdin Industries - 6/27/2003
Background
After losing his job in New York as a result of a corporate reorganization, Plaintiff entered into negotiations with Aladdin's CEO, Ari Chaney ("Chaney"), regarding his potential employment as an Executive Vice...
Gholston v. Brown Chain Link Fence Construction Co. - 6/26/2003
The employee or claimant, Mr. Gholston, initiated this civil action to recover workers' compensation benefits for an injury by accident arising out of his employment. His amended complaint named the employer, Brown Chain Link Fence...
Lattimore v. CNA Insurance Company - 6/26/2003
The employee or claimant, Mr. Lattimore, initiated this civil action to recover workers' compensation benefits for alleged injuries to his back, left leg and right leg resulting from an accident arising out of and in the course of...
Hensley v. England/Corsair Upholstery Manufacturing Company - 6/24/2003
The trial court awarded the employee, Shirley K. Hensley, 50 percent permanent partial disability as a result of sustaining an occupational disease. The employer and insurance carrier have appealed insisting the evidence is not...
Lay v. Scott County Sheriff's Department - 6/19/2003
Factual and Procedural Background
The plaintiff, Jerry Brandon Lay ("Lay"), worked as a deputy sheriff for the defendant, the Scott County Sheriff's Department, when he was injured in an automobile accident while responding to...
Chelton v. Provident Companies - 6/19/2003
Ms. Chelton was born on August 31, 1941. In 1962 she was hired by Provident as a mail clerk and over the next several years she was employed by Provident in a variety of positions in the areas of accounting, customer service, sales...
Tallardy v. Jones - 6/12/2003
On March 22, 2000, H. John Tallardy entered into a contract with William Jones d/b/a Queen City Construction, the purpose of which was to make substantial improvements to Tallardy's residence. During the course of construction,...
Holland v. City of Memphis - 6/10/2003
Plaintiff Nina Sue Holland (Ms. Holland) was employed as a security officer with the Memphis Housing Authority ("MHA") from February 1987 until she was discharged on July 30, 1997. In 1993, she applied for a position as manager of...
Royal Insurance Company v. R & R Drywall - 6/6/2003
I. A Retrospective Premium
R & R Drywall ("R & R") is a Middle Tennessee corporation that hangs, mounts and finishes drywall on both commercial and residential projects. Royal Insurance Company ("Royal") is R & R's...
State v. Jones - 6/4/2003
I. Factual Background
A. Trial
The appellant was indicted by the Davidson County Grand Jury on the following counts due to the writing of falsified checks:
Count Date of Offense Name of Offense Amount of Offense ...
Edde v. Edde - 6/3/2003
Hazel Ann Edde ("Wife") and Gladys Dalton Edde ("Husband") were married on June 5, 1965. After thirty-six years of marriage, when Wife was 55 years old and Husband was 61, Wife filed for divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable...
Burnett v. Board of Professional Responsibility - 3/25/2003
Procedural Background
In 1967, the appellant, Sam Thomas Burnett, received his Tennessee license to practice law. He was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1971, and served as a state representative and...
McDroom v. Owens-Corning Corp. - 3/18/2003
The employee or claimant, Ms. McBroom, initiated this civil action to recover workers' compensation benefits for a gradual injury to both arms. At the conclusion of the trial on October 17, 2001, the trial court awarded, among other...
Shelton v. ADS Environmental Services - 3/14/2003
The case under submission presents the same issue that this Court addressed in its companion case, McCall v. National Health Corp., which we have just decided in a separate opinion. In McCall, we held that the trial court has the...
Croley v. Levi Strauss & Co. - 3/14/2003
Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Croley was 62 years old at the time of trial. She completed the 8th grade in school and had no vocational training. She is married with grown children and has legal custody of a grandchild. She had not worked...
McCall v. National Health Corp. - 3/13/2003
The case under submission and Shelton v. ADS Environmental Services are both before this Court on interlocutory appeal pursuant to Tennessee Rule of Appellate Procedure 9. Both cases address the trial court's authority to initiate...
Smith v. Findlay Industries - 3/11/2003
In the first appeal of this case, this court affirmed the judgment but remanded the cause to the trial court for a determination of the employee's compensation rate. On remand, the trial court corrected the employee's correct...
Winchester v. John Doe Insurance Co. - 3/10/2003
The employee or claimant, Ms. Winchester, initiated this civil action to recover workers' compensation benefits for injuries allegedly arising out of and in the course of her employment with the employer, Findlay Industries. The...
Bernard v. Active USA - 3/10/2003
The employee or claimant, Mr. Bernard, initiated this civil action to recover workers' compensation benefits. Following a trial on November 26, 2001, the trial court awarded, among other things, permanent partial disability benefits...
Norman v. Norman - 3/4/2003
David Norman ("Husband") and Melissa Norman ("Wife") were married on September 18, 1993. After approximately seven years of marriage and the birth of two children, on July 11, 2000, Husband filed for divorce. As grounds, Husband...
Dennis v. White Way Cleaners - 3/4/2003
I.
White Way Cleaners is a business concern that has been furnishing dry cleaning and laundry services in Nashville for many years. The company employs about 100 people at any one time. The plaintiff, Doris Faye Dennis, began...
Conner Bros. Excavating Co. - 3/3/2003
FACTUAL BACKGROUND
The appellant, Clyde L. Long, who was forty-six years-old at the time of trial, began working for the appellee, Conner Bros. Excavating Co., Inc., in 1989 and worked approximately eighteen months. He later...
State ex rel Pope v. United States Fire Insurance Company - 2/28/2003
The Intervening Petitioners appeal.
Because there are no disputed facts, resolution of this appeal becomes a question of law decided by this Court, unaccompanied by a presumption of correctness of the determination below. Union...
Devers v. Aqua Glass Corp. - 2/27/2003
This civil action was initiated by the employee or claimant, Michelle Devers, to recover workers' compensation benefits for gradually occurring work related injuries to her hands and arms. The employer answered by asserting that the...
Dunnagan v. Foamex - 2/26/2003
The employee or claimant, Ray Dunnagan, initiated this civil action on April 5, 2001 to recover workers' compensation benefits for an alleged occupational disease resulting from exposure to chemicals at work. By its answer, the...
Griffin v. Ace USA - 2/26/2003
At the time of trial, the plaintiff, who is married and is the mother of a child, was forty years of age. She has a twelfth-grade education. The plaintiff's work history is, for the most part, that of a food service worker. In 1991,...
Stephens v. Bekaert Steel Wire Corporation - 2/25/2003
At the time of trial the plaintiff, the mother of five children, was twenty-nine years of age. She has a high school education and has performed manual labor during most of her adult life.
In 1995, the plaintiff received an...
Carwile v. Compass Group - 2/13/2003
This civil action was initiated by the employee or claimant, Ms. Carwile, to recover workers' compensation benefits, including reasonably necessary medical expenses, for a work related injury. At the conclusion of the trial, the...
Wynn v. Heckethorn Manufacturing Co. - 2/4/2003
The employee or claimant, Ms. Wynn, initiated this civil action to recover workers' compensation benefits for an accidental injury to her left shoulder and neck occurring on March 5, 1998, while she was performing production welding....
State v. Looper - 2/3/2003
To the extent possible, we will review the evidence in an order which is chronological to the offense.
STATE'S PROOF
The victim, Tommy Burks, had lived in Cumberland County with his wife Charlotte for approximately thirty...
Searcy v. Unipres U.S.A. - 1/31/2003
The employee or claimant, Mr. Searcy, initiated this civil action against the employer, Unipres, to recover workers' compensation benefits for injuries suffered in an alleged work related accident occurring on July 20, 1999. By its...
Mullins v. Crotty Corp. - 1/31/2003
The employee or claimant, Ms. Mullins, initiated this civil action to recover workers' compensation for an alleged work related injury by accident. After a hearing on all issues raised by the pleadings, the trial court awarded...
Lytle v. Fru-Con - 1/30/2003
This civil action was initiated by the employee or claimant, Mr. Lytle, to recover workers' compensation benefits for a work related injury by accident. At the conclusion of the trial on February 26, 2001, the trial court awarded,...
Wade v. Wade - 12/31/2002
Parties were married on December 18, 1982. Two children were born of the marriage. The parties were granted a divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences on February 24, 1998. The Marital Dissolution Agreement (MDA) provided...
Brown v. Brown - 12/31/2002
I. Divorce and Alimony
Betty Ruth Brown filed a complaint for divorce from her husband Melvin in 1993, after a marriage of twenty-five years and several lengthy separations. At the time of divorce, Ms. Brown, a registered...
Waddell v. Ogledinkski - 12/30/2002
In March of 2000, Mr. Waddell, an employee of Pro-Temp Staffing (hereinafter "Pro- Temp") assigned to work at Plasti- Line, Inc. (hereinafter "Plasti-Line"), was walking in Plasti-Line's parking lot just after completing his work...
Vinson v. United Parcel Service - 12/30/2002
FACTUAL BACKGROUND
The appellant, Steve Vinson, who was 33 years of age at the time of trial, had been employed as a tractor-trailer driver for United Parcel Service (UPS) since 1990. On November 20, 1998, Mr. Vinson was...
State v. Gaitor - 12/23/2002
Viewed in the light most favorable to the state, the evidence at trial demonstrated that on November 30, 1998, members of the First Judicial District Drug Task Force went to the Fairfield Inn in Johnson City, where they were informed...
Lenear v. Rehab Care Group - 12/20/2002
Facts
This case was tried on joint stipulations and the oral testimony of the claimant, Billie Jo Lenear. On March 11, 1998, Ms. Lenear applied for employment as a nursing assistant with Rehab Care Group, Inc. She filled out a...
Gann v. Flagstar Enterprises - 12/20/2002
Facts
The trial court on motion for summary judgment dismissed this case on the grounds that the petition for worker's compensation benefits filed by Andy R. Gann against his employer, Flagstar Enterprises, Inc. was not timely...
Hunter v. MTD Products - 12/20/2002
The plaintiff, Jerry Hunter, sued his former employer, MTD Products, Inc. following his unsuccessful suit to recover workers' compensation benefits from the Defendant. The gist of the complaint is that the Defendant was involved in a...
Carter v. First Source Furniture Group - 12/19/2002
Factual Background
The plaintiff, Joanne Carter ("Carter"), worked for the defendant, First Source Furniture Group, which does business in Halls, Tennessee, as Anderson Hickey ("Anderson Hickey"). At the time of her injury, the...
Hudgens v. Royal & Sunalliance Insurance Company - 12/16/2002
Mrs. Sherry Lynn Hudgens, the employee/appellee, was 42 years old at the time of trial, has a twelfth grade education, and has no special skills or training. All of the jobs she has held in the past involved some type of manual...
Moss v. Feldkircher Wire Fabricating Co. - 12/16/2002
Mailed - October 11, 2002
GRAY, SP. J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which DROWOTA, C. J., and LOSER, SP. J. joined
MEMORANDUM
The parties stipulated that on the 21st day of August, 1998 David C. Moss...
Hardy v. PML - 12/11/2002
The plaintiff, Hardey, was forty (40) years old at trial. She completed the eleventh (11th) grade and obtained a general equivalency diploma. Her work history is mostly manual labor in factories. She began working for PML in November...
Powers v. American Interstate Insurance Company - 12/11/2002
By these consolidated civil actions, the claimants sued to recover workers' compensation benefits, as provided by the Workers' Compensation Act, Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-101 et seq, for the accidental deaths of David Witherspoon and...
Barton v. Anvil International - 12/11/2002
The employee or claimant, Ms. Barton, initiated this civil action to recover workers' compensation disability benefits for a work-related injury. The employer, Anvil International, denied liability for permanent disability. After a...
Hill v. Wilson Sporting Goods Co. - 12/9/2002
Pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-241(a)(2), the employee or claimant, Hershel Hill, initiated this civil action for reconsideration of a previous award of permanent partial disability benefits for injuries suffered in a...
Swaw v. Trane Unitary Products Commercial - 12/9/2002
The employee or claimant, Mr. Swaw, initiated this civil action to recover workers' compensation benefits for an alleged work-related injury to both legs occurring on September 29, 1997. The employer, Trane, and its insurer,...
Joshen v. McKee Foods Corporation - 12/9/2002
At the time of this trial, the plaintiff was thirty-eight years of age. He is a high-school graduate and has no post high school education, vocational or academic. He is married and the father of a child who was seventeen at the time...
Garth v. Siskin Steel & Supply Company - 12/9/2002
Plaintiff, Harold Garth, is a high school graduate with vocational training as a bricklayer. After serving in the military, he attended Draughon's Junior college where he received a degree or diploma in trucking and has past...
Fox v. Baptist Memorial Hospital Tipton - 12/9/2002
William Fox (Mr. Fox) was employed by Baptist Memorial Hospital, Tipton, ("Baptist") as director of the Respiratory Care and Cardiology Department from December of 1988 until he was terminated on October 16, 1997. When he was...
Juricak v. Exclusively Temporary - 12/9/2002
The employee or claimant, Mr. Juricak, initiated this civil action against the employer, Exclusively Temporary, Inc., its insurer, Zurich Insurance Company, and the Second Injury Fund to recover workers' compensation benefits for an...
Todd v. Bekaert Steel Wire Corporation - 12/5/2002
The employee or claimant, Todd, initiated this civil action to recover workers' compensation benefits for an alleged work related injury to his left arm and elbow. When mediation failed to resolve the disagreement between the parties...
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